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WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 17h

dynasty affirming surgery

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WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 17h

Hunt & peck

WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 4d

I had the paperback MAD! books, and so I saw their version of Clockwork Orange when I was about 12. It gave me nightmares. I saw the movie when I was 25 and it had relatively little effect.

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WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 4d

We shot a missile into space
We fear it fell to Earth someplace;
Though we were aiming for the moon,
China claims we hit Kowloon.
Now Chao En-Lai is hopping mad
Because it seems our aim was bad,
And all our science expertise
Found nothing but enraged Chinese.
Mad Magazine, the 70s, from memory

WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 4d

Ah, okay, yes then

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WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 4d

You know Mort Drucker was sneaking his 110 Instamatic into some dingy Staten Island cinema for the $1 afternoon show of this.

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WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 4d

my 1st exposure to this movie was in Sept 1976

from Mad Magazine issue #185, "Borey Lyndon (Kubrick-a-Brack Dept);" a Barry Lyndon (Mort Drucker?) parody with one character holding another in a headlock with the following text balloons:
A: I really detest you, Borey Lyndon!
B: Why...?
A: Because I'm supposed to be 18, and you 45! And you look YOUNGER than I do!
C: How gauche! Stop that fighting this minute! You want to wake up the audience?!?

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WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 4d

yes, title, from Lady Lyndon's husband, descends to his son, Lord Bullingdon. The book explains it only a little better, but you must endure Thackeray.
gutenberg.org/ebooks/4558

Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

gutenberg.org

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WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 4d

once they got to bugs and daffy, everything was on the table: Spock, Indiana Jones, Superman

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WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 6d

I mean, be fair someone's gotta be the taint

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WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 7d

So much great literature was the trash of its time.p

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WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 7d

I had them all. He worked off of the scripts and sometimes there were scenes that didn't make it to production.

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WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 7d

Harris! From the Post!
You gotta watch out for those blue ones.

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WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 7d

Engine #9 should be a Great American Songbook standard, I will not be proven wrong

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WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 8d

Oh yeah, those guys opened for us in Madison in 1983

WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 12d

also rawhide leather will last longer if soaked in this tea

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WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 13d

He'd be a country singer in the Bronx

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WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 16d

...the smell of hot molten poison from the Linotype machine...

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WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 19d

"Meanwhile, at the Legion of Doom..."

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WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 20d

It took HH a few decades

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WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 21d

some entitled genz kid just this morning giving me attitude like, "there's just some dick even I can't suck," and I'm like, not with that attitude boyo, unhinge that jaw

WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 24d

Chicken and vegetable, lentil, macaroni, white bean, chili, minestrone, onion, potato leek, I make it on Sunday and eat it all week

WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 24d

there's fish in there, they can hear the fish

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WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 27d

It's like when they ask what my song is "about."

WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 28d

That's a very good deal on a 12 foot skeleton, you must have haggled down to the bone

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